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Last one out, shut the door! It has been a wondrous day around here. I am seeing engaged and talented kids around here all hours of the day and into the evening! We are enjoying our creative time together and we are also very happy to be working in this great space. We have a lot going on - a project based on Stereotyping, food styling, advanced applied graphics (candy box designs, CD/DVD packaging and books, dustjacket design) and also some great logo design and photography, just as an aside. It is undoubtedly the most enthused group that I have taught for quite some time, and they are just incredibly fun to work with! I just had a couple of students from Hebron who worked after school for hours, and another small group who stayed after to do another different photo shoot with projected imagery, very cool. Good day in 'da house.

it is really oversimplification. It allows people to not go to all the hassle of figuring out what people are REALLY all about and just make assumptions based on very little evidence. For example, I am an artist. For as long as I can remember, I have been referred to as the "artsy" girl, the "artsy" lady. Forever! Assumptions are made by many people that because I am "artsy" I can't handle complexities. That all I can do is "make pretty pictures" and that I must not be very substantive. I find that to be a wrong assessment, and it is merely a stereotype of female artists in particular. Other stereotypes run rampant about those in the artistic community. Counselors will often automatically try to "dumb down" college schedules thinking that we "artsy" ones cannot handle math or science. Also an unfair and unwise assumption. Although those were not favorite subjects for me, I handled them in college with a fair amount of ea

Sometimes I think it's a really good thing to stop in your tracks and take stock. Ask yourself how you're doing in life. Just in general. I try to do that at the end of each day. I ask myself if I said anything to anyone in anger or just out of spite. I ask myself if I ignored someone who might have really needed some special attention from me. I ask myself if I am proud of myself for how I acted. If I answer too many times in the negative, then I try to talk about it to myself a little bit in my mind. Self analysis. "Hey, dummy! Why did you do that? Maybe you can do better tomorrow, eh?" I know that may seem a little bit odd, but I have been doing that since I was a kid. It's not that I feel that I must be pleasing everyone else at the expense of meeting my own needs, but if I am meeting my own needs at the expense of others... well, I see that as a problem. Think about it. That good old golden rule should be a guidepost for human behaviour. Who doesn't